 | U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice answers a question during a news conference in Beijing March 21, 2005. Rice, who met China's leaders at the Great Hall of the People, has used her trip to increase pressure on Beijing to persuade its neighbour North Korea to return to negotiations over scrapping its nuclear arms programmes. click to open  |
 | U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice adjusts her microphones as the American and Chinese flags stand behind her during a press conference at a hotel, part of her program during a two-day visit to the Chinese capital Beijing, the final stop on a weeklong tour of Asian capitals Monday March 21, 2005. Rice is seeking further help from China in getting North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks and has aired Washington's concerns about Beijing's bellicose rhetoric on Taiwan. click to open  |
 | U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reacts to a question by the media during a press conference at a hotel, part of her program during a two-day visit to the Chinese capital Beijing, the final stop on a weeklong tour of Asian capitals Monday March 21, 2005. Rice is seeking further help from China in getting North Korea back to nuclear disarmament talks and has aired Washington's concerns about Beijing's bellicose rhetoric on Taiwan. click to open  |
 | U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice answers a question during a news conference in Beijing March 21, 2005. Rice, who met China's leaders at the Great Hall of the People, has used her trip to increase pressure on Beijing to persuade its neighbour North Korea to return to negotiations over scrapping its nuclear arms programmes. click to open  |
 | U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice answers a question during a news conference in Beijing March 21, 2005. Rice, who met China's leaders at the Great Hall of the People, has used her trip to increase pressure on Beijing to persuade its neighbour North Korea to return to negotiations over scrapping its nuclear arms programmes. click to open  |
 | North Korean chief negotiator Kim Kye Gwan smiles as he attends a reception after a third day of six-nation negotiations on North Korea's nuclear drive, which ended Friday after being delayed for an unexpected bilateral meeting between North Korea and China, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday June 25, 2004. North Korea on Thursday threatened to test a nuclear weapon unless Washington accepts Pyongyang's conditions for a freeze on its atomic program. click to open  |
 | Wang Yi, China's Deputy Foreign Minister and chief negotiator, hosts a news conference after the third round of Six-Party Talks closed in Beijing June 26, 2004. The United States and North Korea emerged on Saturday from four days of nuclear crisis talks as far apart as ever, with Washington insisting Pyongyang disclose its uranium enrichment program. click to open  |
 | China's Deputy Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, listens to the opening speeches at the start of the third round of six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue, in Beijing's Diaoyutai State Guesthouse Wednesday June 23, 2004. Kim said that North Korea is willing to give up nuclear weapons 'in a transparent way' if the United States ends its 'hostile policy' toward Pyongyang. click to open  |
 | Vice President Dick Cheney answers questions from students at Fudan University in Shanghai, April 15, 2004. Warning that North Korea could spread nuclear technology to terrorists or spur an arms race, Cheney appealed to China to help speed up efforts to end Pyongyang's nuclear programs. click to open  |
 | Representatives from Japan, U.S, two Koreas, China and Russia before the 6-nation talk in Beijing on Aug 27th 2003 click to open  |